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Looks really good.

it came out great!

nice! looks good.

Those are some great looking bowies. Nice work

As I stated before, because the cutting edge isn't too sharp. I consider them mainly decorative pieces. I love arrow head hunting and knapping obsidian. So the look is really what I was going for.

Thanks for the positive comments.

Nice work!

These are mainly decorative pieces i forged from 1/2" coil spring. I followed "tsterlings" tutorial on knapped steel neck knives. they were fun to make. I hope you like them.

Excellent! A draw knife was going to be a future project for me aa well. thanks for the video.

absolutely beautiful. great work on the hawks!

great work!!!

Excellent job! I need to try that.

Thanks for the comments. i have some steel ready to forge. Im making a bowie for my father. Im going to utilize everything ive learned so far.

I forged this from a spike. peened and filed on the spine. I tried a new method of hardening the cutting edge. It involves using a small quenching tray to submerge only the cutting edge. It looks like it worked fine.

Thanks a lot. Working on the sheath for it now. I'm going to incorporate some hair on hide into the sheath somehow.

I finished this knife this morning. I purchased a handfull of files from someone for 3$. this one had been broken. After peparing the material(normalizing and annealing) I grinded and filed the blade. then sanded up to 2500 grit. I made the guard from 6061-t6 aluminum( this is my first guard). The handle is made of Brazilian cherry with stainless steel stud and an aluminum lanyard hole. The blade was clay fired and tempered twice. the blade was slightly etched as well. I still need to make the sheathe for it.

Nice work! what is the handle material?

I consider myself a "beginer". i would suggest leaving the foundry work for later. start off with Your basic bladesmith-blacksmithing hammer skills. Do a lot of research on the internet and the library on methods and practices of bladesmithing....AND most of all, PRACTICE. I built my first gas forge for about 20$.. Using materials from second hand building stores and garage sales, yard sales ect... just keep in mind that there will definately be mistakes made along the way.

I love pattern welded! this is great!

excellent!

I really like this. great work!

Thank you. I looked online to see if anyone had ever made a sheathe like this, i didnt find any. Ive seen some that were made from wood. This was a trial and error type project. Ive been wearing it for several days and its holding up fine.

excellent finish. looks great!

depending on the shape of the knife, i would do a hardwood handle....If you download the picture onto your computer and right click. select edit in the menu and there should be a feature to resize the photo.

Looks great! One question, did you stabilize the scales beforehand? If so, what did you use?